With experience selling properties in Palos Verdes, Redondo Beach, San Pedro, Torrance, Hermosa, and Manhattan Beach and recognized as a Top Producer year after year, Linda has been named to the Coldwell Banker International President's Circle.   She is ranked within the top 17% of all Sales Associates nationally.  These honors will assure you that you are working with a full time professional. 

For buyers and sellers, Linda's experience as a Paralegal helps her design contracts that protects her clients and negotiate the best possible deal.  For  her buyers, she TIRELESSLY SEARCHES  until  she finds the perfect property knowing that the home must fit their life style and their income.  For  her sellers, she works WITH owners to price and stage their property, advertising and presenting their homes to Brokers and  Buyers through every possible media available until the property is sold.

If you are seeking to buy or sell a home or would just like more information, please feel free to call Linda at 310-544-8455, Cell 310-722-7550 or Email  LKCavette@aol.com.  Thanks again for choosing Linda Cavette as your real estate consultant.

Want to know more about this dedicated Realtor, please read on:   QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

1.          How long in Real Estate?                          

12 years in residential sales, 3 years at Beach Cities Health District in Property management of the leasing for the South Bay Hospital and local properties, 15 years in Probate Law offices handling probate properties that were sold.

2.         Special Training or qualifications?

As a certified paralegal, trained to prepare contracts with attention to detail is the most important qualification I can bring to you as your realtor.  This qualification will assure you a straight-forward error free Listing Agreement, the final Purchase Contract on your home, and the fully executed Disclosures required in the sale of a property which will keep you out of harms way in this litigious state of California. 

3.         Strengths in negotiating?

As a paralegal I was trained in negotiation skills, and now with experience I have learned to “read” others to try to understand what they want in the end.  There are more negotiations in a real estate deal other than just the Price of your home.   I have learned that each transaction is different and requires a different approach by me as your representative.  Presenting verifiable facts and figures is mandatory in negotiating with Buyers and Appraisers.  Other Agents in our business respect me and will rely on me for honesty and integrity, giving way to my decisions. They know I am here to put a sale together and close escrow.  My reputation is strong and unquestioned.

4.         What Market Changes have you faced and how to handle them?

            This is a very lengthy answer so please ask me for a verbal reply.

5.         Do you have an Assistant?

I work without an Assistant because I want to handle all the questions, information, advertising, communications, etc. on your property myself to lower the risk of error in communications.  I do however, use a Transactional Secretary who double checks all my paper work making sure everything is signed properly and at the close of escrow, the file is reviewed and signed off by our Broker-Manager, and filed in the Coldwell Banker archives.    This is to protect my clients from any possible litigation. 

6.         How many clients worked with in the last 12 months?  How many sales?

I encounter countless people on a daily basis, both in business and social situations.  Real Estate is my full time career.  Sales equal 12 to 17 properties a year, considered Very Successful.

WHAT MAKES CLIENTS SATISFIED WITH MY WORK?

·        Legal training and experience as a Paralegal certified by the American Bar Association in 1982 prepared me to be more aware of liability and to advise my clients correctly. Thereby adverting any future legal problems in the course of signing the many forms and contracts involved in the process of buying and selling.  I have my client’s best interest at heart.

·        Experience with honest and open communication with my sellers, buyers and other agents.  Immediate response to their needs and constant update of marketing results. Complete loyalty to my clients.  This is not just a business to me, my clients become my friends.  This is what sets me apart from all other Agents.

·        My endless energy and attention to detail in the advertising of their properties for sale. It is my job to draw agents and buyers to your home. 

·        My recommendations to enhance their property.

·        My Negotiation methods learned as a Paralegal that bring sellers and buyers together to complete a deal that satisfies everyone; not to become adversarial with other agents creating tension that undermines the contract.

·        My Negotiation experience and skills of selling numerous properties that protect my client’s interest, such as countering terms in the contract and closely examining Inspection Reports. I am present at Inspections as your representative to protect your home and question or answer Inspector’s findings.  This is often not felt to be a part of the Listing Realtor’s responsibility because of many factors, but I consider it a very important task to protect my client’s interest.

·        My availability to help in any way that I can to make the experience easier for my clients, including meeting their inspectors, driving documents to them to save them time, trouble or messenger fees, or finding and meeting service providers needed for repairs.  Whatever you need, I am ready to help.

·        Reducing client’s expenses by researching lower priced Natural Hazard Disclosure Companies, Termite Companies, or repairmen for the Buyer’s “Inspection Request For Repairs”. 

·        Deciding WITH my client on a value for their home by preparing researched comparable sales and looking objectively through the eye’s of appraisers.

RESUME            Linda K. Cavette

Cell   310-722-7550    email:    LKCavette@aol.com            website:    www.LindaCavette.com

AWARDS:                     INTERNATIONAL PRESIDENTS CIRCLE FOR REALTORS ACHIEVING MEASURED TOP SALES CATEGORY

                                                TOP 17% OF ALL  SALES ASSOCIATES NATIONALLY     PREVIEWS INTERNATIONAL SALES AGENT FOR QUANTITY OF HOMES SOLD OVER $2 MILLION      DIAMOND SOCIETY FOR TOP SALES,  COMMISION EARNED

AFFILIATIONS:            California Department of Real Estate Licensed Sales Person Id. 01294734

                                   Member Palos Verdes Association of Realtors, Greater South Bay MLS

                                   Member California and National Association of Realtors

                                    Notary Public commission expired   

EDUCATION:               Bachelor of Arts Degree in Journalism from California State University, Fresno

                                   Real Estate Studies Anthony Schools

                                   Certified Probate Paralegal by the American Bar Association, California ST University LA 

                                   Corporate Formation

                                 Certified by Professional Education Systems, Inc.

                                   Litigation Certificate by the Center for Legal Studies, Marymount College

                                   Computers: Multiple Listing Service Website, MS Word, Internet, Excel

                                   Relocation, Marketing,  Inventory, Realty Specialist by The Cendant Corporation

                                   Certified Palos Verdes Specialist by PV Peninsula Association of Realtors

EXPERIENCE:              COLDWELL BANKER                                   Full-Time  RealtorÒ, Top Ten Producer, Relocation Specialist

Fred Sands Palos Verdes Realty

                                               Summit Real Estate, Palos Verdes

                                    Marianna Hofer, Attorney at Law,    Redondo Beach

                                    Paralegal in Estate Planning and Probate      law practice.

                                   Beach Cities Health District,

                                    Redondo Beach

                                    Assistant to Property Administrator

                                   Law Offices Frumes and Frumes          

                                    Legal Assistant to two attorneys in general law office.  Practice included Estate Planning, Probate, Living Trusts, Conservatorships, Corporation Formation, Bankruptcy,  Civil Litigation

                                   Law Offices of Alexander E. Macksoud, Torrance

Prepared Family Law Dissolution documents. 

                                   Law Offices of Peter W. Cavette, Long Beach

                                    Managed family owned law practice in         ERISA law, probate paralegal, sold probate properties.

PERSONAL:                

Local homeowner since 1977 and mother of two very actively involved daughters, now grown.  Philanthropic volunteer work past and present includes PTA 1977-2000, Girl Scout Leader, National Charity League and Ticktockers, Las Madrecitas and Las Ninas, Symphonian Tour Guide for the Los Angeles Music Center, Pop Warner Cheerleading, AYSO Soccer, Education Foundation, School Classroom Aide, Palos Verdes and San Gabriel Junior Woman’s Clubs, PV Couples Club, Bravo for Norris Theater, South Bay Free Clinic Legal Aide Section, Neighborhood Church, Red Hat Society, Marine League Tennis Player and owner of a Golden Retriever named Sandy SeaBreeze!

                                    “LIFE IS A JOURNEY, MEASURED AND REMEMBERED BY THE HOMES IN WHICH WE LIVE”